Archive for July, 2006

Free Online Marketing Teleseminar Tomorrow

Monday, July 17th, 2006
 

– Does the word marketing made you cringe?
– Do you have a seamless online marketing plan that runs itself?
– Do you have targeted visitors flocking to your website daily?

Believe it or not, you can build the greatest website ever, but unless you take simple steps to market it correctly, your visitors just won’t come. Join me, as I am interviewed by Catherine Bruns on how to turn your web site into a selling machine. Learn how to get more visitors to your web site, more subscribers to your newsletter, gain online recognition, sell more of your products and services, and make more money online.

Here’s what you will learn during this information-packed seminar:

* How to find your target market online
* How to bring targeted leads to your web site
* How to market to your perfect customers month after month
* How to get commissions-only sales people to sell your products
* How to put your marketing on autopilot

I am the online business consultant, expert and author and I have helped hundreds of business owners attract more web site customers, bring in more online publicity and make more money online.

Remember – joining in on this amazing teleforum is FREE, but you do have to register. Click Here To Register For Free Online Marketing Teleseminar

Building Awareness Using Your Blog

Saturday, July 15th, 2006
 

Many people ask me what I think of blogging as a way to build awareness and brand for a business. I love blogging – it helps me bring in more traffic and awareness for my products. It is easy to set up a blog – I recommend using software available on WordPress.org on your own web server, which is great for branding. You can also set up a blog at blogger.com.
A few ways to use your blog to build awareness for your business:

– Optimize your posts for search engines. By using search engine optimization you can drive more search engine traffic to your blog.

– Link to your web site and your products from the blog. By providing more information about you and your business, you get the reader interested in learning more about you and your business.

– Invite your blog readers to subscribe to your newsletter.

I have written many articles about using a blog for marketing. You can read them at https://www.avocadoconsulting.com/articles/ under Business Blogging.

Biana Babinsky

Biana Babinsky is the online business consultant, expert and author, who teaches solopreneurs and online business owners how to get more clients and make more money online. Get marketing advice directly from Biana at https://www.MarketingSalad.com

What Are Your 12 Months Goals?

Friday, July 14th, 2006
 

Many solopreneurs have BIG goals for the next 12 months. For example, here are goals that lots of solopreneurs have for the next 12 months:

Passive Income Goal: Create at least three products (books, ebooks, special reports, audio CDs) and sell them on their web site.

Web Site Traffic Goal: Increase web site traffic at least 10 times, using article marketing and search engine optimization.

Business Blogging Goal: Create a blog and blog on a regular basis. Have the blog attract a lot of traffic, and use it to create brand awareness, leads and sales for the business.

These sound like a great goals, but the problem is that many solopreneurs don’t follow up on them. 12 months come and go, and they are not any closer to implementing these
goals for their business.

After talking to many solopreneurs, I find this happens for a few different reasons:

Solopreneurs and online business owners would love to implement the goals, but they do not know how to do that. They don’t know how to do search engine optimization, get a business blog or create and start selling an e-book.

They search for the information online, become overwhelmed with all the information available, and are not able to extract the information they need.

Solopreneurs need to ask follow-up questions about marketing techniques. Many have told me that after buying an information product on search engine optimization, online marketing or passive income stream, they still need some help implementing the techniques discussed.

Since they can’t ask the author more questions about implementing the techniques in their business, they give up on marketing techniques and their goals.

They are not connected with peer professionals. To stay on track and keep motivated, you need to be connected with peers who are working on similar goals. You can also ask your peers for feedback on your products and for testimonials and bonuses to include with your new products.

My Complete Online Marketing System, addresses all of the above issues and helps business owners achieve their passive income, web site traffic and blogging goals. Here is how it does that:

Complete Online Marketing System includes my very popular Step By Step Complete Online Marketing Course, that describes to you in non-techy steps how to apply search engine optimization, business blogging, article marketing and other marketing techniques to your business.

If you have questions (after working with many solopreneurs, I KNOW that you will have additional questions), the Complete Online Marketing System gives you access for a YEAR to my members-only web site, MarketingSalad.com. There I answer members questions on everything from choosing the right keywords to commenting on other people’s blogs.

Need testimonials for your brand new product, or want to brainstorm with other members? This is what the forum at MarketingSalad.com is for – members share ideas and discuss how to use online marketing to get more clients and earn more money online.

The Complete Online Marketing System consists of two of my proven and extremely popular products, Complete Step by Step Marketing Course and membership in
MarketingSalad.com, the online business community for solopreneurs.

If you were to purchase them separately, you would pay $167 for these two products. However, until today at 10 pm Eastern Time, you can grab The Complete Online Marketing System for just $97 – save $70!!

WARNING: Today is the last day to get the Complete
Online Marketing System
at the ridiculously low price of $97. Today at 10pm Eastern time the price is going to $127. Get it today before 10 pm Eastern and get the discount at https://www.avocadoconsulting.com/rlinks/zcomplete

MySpace Has The Most Traffic

Thursday, July 13th, 2006
 

According to MySpace top single U.S. Web site article, MySpace is the single most visited US web site. Here is what the article says:

“According to Internet traffic measurement firm Hitwise, News Corp.’s MySpace.com accounted for 4.46 percent of all U.S. Internet visits for the week ending July 8, pushing it past Yahoo Mail for the first time and outpacing the home pages for Yahoo, Google and Microsoft’s MSN Hotmail.”

Read the rest of the article here

Biana Babinsky is the online business consultant, expert and author, who teaches solopreneurs and online business owners how to get more clients and make more money online. Get marketing advice directly from Biana at https://www.MarketingSalad.com

Make More Money By Getting Help

Thursday, July 13th, 2006
 

Do you want to make more money? You might be able to make more money by concentrating on your core activities and outsourcing the rest of the things that need to be done.

For example, if you are a business coach, your core activities are working with your clients, teaching classes, giving speeches, writing your newsletter and marketing and networking to get your business better known. However, other activities, such as bookkeeping, billing and invoicing, and various administrative tasks are not your core activities. If you outsource them, you will have more time to work with clients, create new products and market your products; these are activities that earn you money.

Outsourcing to make more money was just one of the tips that Kristine McKinley shared yesterday during the “Five Financial Mistakes Solo-Professionals Make” teleseminar, part of the Business Conversations with Biana Babinsky Teleseminar Series.

To learn more about how not to make financial mistakes that result in losing money, you can get a full recording of Kristine’s teleseminar. It is available free to members of MarketingSalad.com, the online community for business owners. You can join now at https://www.MarketingSalad.com and get immediate access to Five Financial Mistakes Solo-Professionals Make Teleseminar Audio Recording, as well as other business audio recordings, business worksheets and online business coaching.

Biana Babinsky

Biana Babinsky is the online business consultant, expert and author, who teaches solopreneurs and online business owners how to get more clients and make more money online. Get marketing advice directly from Biana at https://www.MarketingSalad.com

Friendster Patents Social Networking

Thursday, July 13th, 2006
 

I recently read in Wendy Piersall’s blog post, Friendster Patents Social Networking that Friendster received a patent that convers online social networks.

According to the original article, Friendster Wins Patent, it is too early to say what will be happening in the online networking because of this patent. It will be interesting to see how others in the online networking space will react to this.

Biana Babinsky

Biana Babinsky is the online business consultant, expert and author, who teaches solopreneurs and online business owners how to get more clients and make more money online. Get marketing advice directly from Biana at https://www.MarketingSalad.com

What Are Your Customers Saying About YOU?

Friday, July 7th, 2006
 

I was reading in Gautam Ghosh’s post, More on employer branding, that employees can shape an employer’s brand by posting positive or negative comments about the employer on their blogs.

Gautam recommends that you monitor what people are saying about your company on a regular basis:

That is the one reason why organizations need to be aware of and monitor social software. If your company’s name is CoolCompany search for “I love CoolCompany” and “I hate CoolCompany” on Google as well as blog search. Search for CoolCompany on Technorati, Icerocket and Bloglines. See what are people talking about CoolCompany. Search for it on Flickr. Any photographs that you would rather not see associated with your company?

But what if you are a solopreneur without any employees? Are you safe? Well, even though you don’t have employees to post comments about you, you still have colleagues, vendors, customers and lots of other people who come in contact with you and your company.

Take advice from Gautam, and search for your name and your company name for a regular basis. Use the search engines too – see what they are picking up about your company.

Biana Babinsky

Biana Babinsky is the online business consultant, expert and author, who teaches solopreneurs and online business owners how to get more clients and make more money online. Get marketing advice directly from Biana at https://www.MarketingSalad.com

Complete Online Marketing System

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006
 

Many people have asked me for a Complete Marketing System – ONE system, that will teach them everything about marketing online. They want to have ONE reference to which they want to turn whenever they want to use a new online marketing technique – online networking, article marketing, search engine optimization, etc. They also want to have a place to ask marketing questions and get clear answers – not the wishy-washy answers you get at free marketing forums.

I have created the Complete Online Marketing System to give business owners ONE business resource that answers all of their questions.

The Complete Online Marketing System helps you learn step-by-step directions for marketing your business online, getting more clients and making money. AND it gives you access to me, Biana Babinsky, the online business consultant, expert and author for a whole year to ask questions and brainstorm marketing ideas.

The Complete Online Marketing System consists of two of my proven and extremely popular products, Complete Step by Step Marketing Course and MarketingSalad.com, the online business community for solopreneurs.

If you were to purchase them separately, you would pay $167 for these two products. However, until July 14th, you can grab the Complete Online Marketing System for just $97 – save $70!!

Biana Babinsky

P.S. I am tired of seeing people offer specials and not increase their price after the deadline. This devalues their special offers. However, when I say that I will raise prices, I always do. On July 14th, 2006, at 10pm Eastern time the price for the Complete Online Marketing System will go up to $127. Then, on July 31st, 2006, the price will go up to $147. Save and get Complete Online Marketing System for just $97!

Use Misspellings for Search Engine Optimization

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006
 

Let’s say someone is looking for a Marketing E-book, using search engines. What will this person type in? Sometines e-book, sometimes ebook, sometimes e book. Sometimes a plural form of one of those three.

Which spelling should YOU use on your web page? Which one(s) will bring you the most traffic?

There is a lot of discussion around using correct spelling versus alternative spelling, especially when the alternative spelling brings in traffic. My suggestion would be to first research these alternative spellings with a keyword tool, such as WordTracker, to see how much traffic you can get on those different spellings.
If there are indeed many people searching for misspellings, and you want to capture them, you have a few alternative ways to do that:

– Use them right there in your web site copy. Many people don’t like it, as this makes their web copy unprofessional.

– Create another section on your web site (or a whole new web site), that will have the misspellings, and than funnel the traffic to your clip art. This may be a good alternative if you don’t want to change the copy on your main web site.
You should also get my Step by Step Search Engine Optimization Special Report, that discusses how to drive more traffic from search engines to your web site.
Biana Babinsky

Biana is the online business consultant, expert and author who teaches online business owners how drive more traffic from search engines to their web sites. Learn How to Get More Traffic to Your Web Site from Search Engines, get the Step by Step Search Engine Optimization Special Report

How To Network Online To Get Clients

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006
 

Networking is a great way to get to know your potential clients and other business owners. Networking can help you find new resources, learn how other people do business and create lasting relationships.

And the best part about that is that you can do all of that online. Every day, thousands of business owners log on to networking communities, mailing lists and chat forums to learn, exchange information, network and get more business.

Continuing Reading my How To Network Online To Get Clients Article
Biana Babinsky

Biana Babinsky is the online business consultant, expert and author, who teaches solopreneurs and online business owners how to get more clients and make more money online. Get marketing advice directly from Biana at https://www.MarketingSalad.com